Foreword - No VNTS at the main site because of Decay's business in Nekonyan and admin Tay was still missing, so you should know the deal here. I hope that you'll enjoy this week VNTS Review from mine here.

I thought it would be nice to spice up the title here, so I'd decided to remove the 'Review' part in the title and write it like Fairy Tails Tartaros arc chapters title, and since this is the beginning of Hoshiori translation project I'd use the word 'Prologue'. Obviously I wouldn't write about Tartaros arc, but instead I'll write about this week VNTS here and for next reviews I'll use the this week title format whenever there's a big update from Tsurezure (ie common route and heroines route patch releases). For the title I intended that as the literal translation for the original title of Hoshiori (Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai) with 'Star' here is obviously came from 'Hoshi' and the 'Weaving' part here was from 'Ori', and for a bit of spoiler actually the Hoshi Ori part here is foreshadowed that the Tanabata festival here will be important because it'll be the focus of the first half (For a bit cultural note here, Tanabata was meant to celebrate the meeting between the two stars (Hikoboshi and Orihime) and Orihime here is also known as the weaver). While for the 'Future Dream' part, it was come from 'Yume Mirai' which is exactly as it says ('Yume' mean 'Dream' and 'Mirai' mean 'Future') and more importantly it's because Hoshiori will tell the story of how the casts will reach their own future dream.

Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and my convoluted explanation for this week title I'd definitely like that Tsurezure here was finally managed to started their own dream project (Hoshiori). Other than Hoshiori project was finally started, we also have several releases from fan translation section and a release from Mangagamer. Other than the releases, we also have some updates from fan translation like usual. So let's see what I can write for this week VNTS Review as well.

What I can say in regard of Koropukkur (The real title is actually Koropokkur, but may as well just kept my mistaken naming here lol) is that too bad that Mangagamer didn't announced any of their next month release like usual, because I've been looking forward to Damekoi release. Although perhaps Mangagamer will anoounced that in the near time, so I'll just wait and see until they announced it - if they still want to release it at this year, then Christmas release sounds like a good time. My wish for Damekoi announcement aside, Koropukkur itself was a VN that have Inoue Hitaru as the character design so obviously it should be good if we want more of her work. As for the story itself, it was in regard of the MC who want to revive a maid cafe in Shibuya with the help of three fairies. To be honest, I wouldn't expect much in the story writing because of the writer's previous works so I'll skip on this, although I understand though if some people might find Koropukkur's writing is very good. As for the art, well I think somehow this work managed to show Hitaru's weakness or to put it nicely the coloring was not quite fitting for her art here, compared to her works at KEY VNs earlier. Have fun if you want to play Koropukkur there.

Other

As for Neighbor VN, it's remake of an old horror and mystery VN that was funded through the KS with almost 1.3 million yen funded. While granted the art here might be not everything in regard of VN, in Neighbor case I must say that the art there was quite old schooled to me (It migh be nostalgic though if you've like old newspaper black and white newspaper comic), and the fact that it didn't have big name seiyuu made the VN was quite less popular to me. Of course I may be wrong though in regard of this, so nevertheless you should try it anyway if you interested with more horror and mystery VN, and see whether you'll like it based on the art or not. If you can get past the art (Admittedly it's better than Higurashi's default sprite though), then I'm sure that you'll have fun with the Neighbor there. Either way, have fun with Neighbor there if you've have some interest.

We also have surprise from Frontier that right now they managed to gathered more than halfway (At ~58%) funded with 18 days left, so of course this should be a good news regardless of what happened in the past week. Other than quite successful Frontier KS, we have another new company entering VN localization market that was headed by the famous translator Meru. To add more surprise, they decided to localized their first title with the name Lamunation. As for Lamunation, apparently EGS scores was dropped unfavorable because of the scandal that was happened with the director himself. That controversy aside, the premise was that we have MC with the four girls tried to sell the traditional drink lamune to make everybody happy or something like that. While the premise could be passed of as another moege, apparently this VN did have another gimmick that the comedy is quite over the top so much that you'll probably just throw the logic in order to enjoy it. I just hope that it'll be delivered here successfully at 2019 later, although as for the release timeline it's quite vague though (Should be around March at the most).

Fan Translation

For fan translation we have Eustia was at 52.77% translated along with the editing and TLC progress was at 42.76%, Harugi's overall was at 20% translated with Tonoko's route was at 83% and Branch was at 28% translated (And 22% edited as well), the script for Oreimo Tsuzuku was almost completely finalized with 267 out of 268 scripts was finalized, Yoigoshi was at 22% translated, and Loverable was at 42.21% edited. We also have two full releases, and one of those was Daitoshokan short story (Or rather short FD) which safe to say was quite strange that we got the side story first even before the main game was fully released. While it's too bad that it's just a short VN there, at least it'd manage to break another August's curse with two of their VNs were translated (Granted that Yoake was unedited, but at least we could enjoy it in English albeit the translation of that could be quite rough).

Before covering the obvious another release from fan translation, let me write that we have Summer Pocket trial patch was released by Alka Translation which is already delayed from the initial promise. Although in the end they managed to release it though, so I'd have no problem with that. As for the VN itself, well once again you may treat it as a tribute to Key past works because there's a lot of references in Summer Pockets there, although this time the main writer is the famed nakige writer Niijima Yuu. Feel free to try the patch, and I hope that the translator managed to see this through the end now that the project leader was managed to ensemble the team to do the project after beforehand was told to give up the project here (I admit that I'm the one of the people who told him to give up, although it was more in regard of the engine though), so good luck to the team.

For the last update here we have HatsuKoi Yukino's append patch released, which mean that all of HatsuKoi work was finally finished. As for the append, while obviously it wouldn't give new content much at least it's good enough if some reader want to see a bit more of Yukino, Kyou, and Maya (Too bad though that there's no Midori and Runa append there). Other than append contents were translated, Tsurezure also did some re-TLC of common, Midori's, and Runa's routes so hopefully you'll be able to experience HatsuKoi more smoothly.

And with HatsuKoi was completely translated, it mean that the time has come for Tsurezure to translate Hoshiori, which I'd been interested with for a while here. As for Hoshiori premise, while I already rambling about the title connection with Tanabata and the future dream thing actually it's pretty much a basic one with our new MC (Ryuousuke) came back to his hometown after seven years away from it, and in there he decided to try to realize his dream to become an architect. For additional note here if you'd been disliking Yuuma (HatsuKoi's MC) the you didn't need to worry about it here, because apparently tone work decided to work hard to polished their VN even more and it should be obvious that the result is Hoshiori (Of course HatsuKoi still did have some merit when it comes to the heroine). Good luck to the project, and I'm going to look forward to the complete patch release. Before I'm closing this week VNTS Review here, let me say that Tsurezure did already have the progress which is very good with the common route was at 18.19% translated and for overall Hoshiori it was at 1.47% translated, and as for route order Tsurezure will announce it later (Probably when common route patch released).

That's all for this week VNTS Review, and see you next week.